Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion
2:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
I know that. I am asking about the money, because it will not take until 2030 to get the planning. I am sorry, but my question is really direct and I have only two minutes left. With the capital allocation available the Department has to build the maternity hospital. It is not going to deliver anywhere near those 3,000 beds the previous Minister for Health talked about, so that is out the window. The elective hospitals are now being put on the back burner. Either the Department has the funding for it or it does not. The question is whether within the capital envelope it has does it have the money to move those elective hospitals beyond planning.
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